Evidence and interpretation in studies on early science and medicine : essays in honor of John E. Murdoch / / edited by Edith Dudley Sylla, William R. Newman.

• TeilnehmendeR: Murdoch, John Emery, 1927-2010.; Sylla, Edith Dudley.; Newman, William Royall.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Brill ebook titles
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Modes Of Explanation In The Aristotelian Mechanical Problems /; Structures Of Argument And Concepts Of Force In The Aristotelian Mechanical Problems /; The Simple Ontology of Kalām Atomism: An Outline /; The Footprints Of “Experiment” In Early Arabic Optics /; The “Experience-Based Medicine” Of The Thirteenth Century /; The Intellect Naturalized: Roger Bacon On The Existence Of Corporeal Species Within The Intellect /; Magic And The Physical World In Thirteenth-Century Scholasticism /; The Debate Over The Nature Of Motion: John Buridan, Nicole Oresme And Albert Of Saxony. With An Edition Of John Buridan’s Quaestiones Super Libros Physicorum, Secundum Ultimam Lecturam, Book III, Q. 7 /; John Buridan And Critical Realism /; The Significance Of “Chymical Atomism” /; Conjecture, Probabilism, And Provisional Knowledge In Renaissance Meteorology /; Setting Up Copernicus? Astronomy And Natural Philosophy In Giambattista Capuano Da Manfredonia’s Expositio On The Sphere /; Copernicus’s Mereological Vision Of The Universe /; From “Dragonology” To Meteorology: Aristotelian Natural Philosophy And The Beginning Of The Decline Of The Dragon In China /; Baroque Fire (A Note On Early-Modern Angelology) /; Words, Lines, Diagrams, Images: Towards A History Of Scientific Imagery /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282950754; 9786612950759; 9047441133
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Edith Dudley Sylla, William R. Newman.

The studies in this volume present early science in its rich and divergent complexity. Many historians of the Scientific Revolution have used early modern scholasticism to represent pre-seventeenth century science as a whole, but a close look at ancient, medieval, and even early modern scientific writers shows that before the Scientific Revolution - and not only in Europe - there were many and diverse traditions of interpreting the natural world. This book provides a broad range of historical evidence concerning early science, which may be used as a basis for new and more complex historical interpretations. Originally published as Volume XIV, Nos. 1-3 (2009) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine .